“Alien: Resurrection” is a massive step above “Alien 3” but still remains a bad movie. “Alien: Resurrection” feels more like a mockery of the previous films by featuring superpowers and a few silly death scenes.

The movie takes places 200 years after “Alien 3” as we find Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver “Ghostbusters”, “Working Girl”) has been resurrected and the Alien Queen inside her is being grown as a group of scientists intend to tame it. The aliens known as ‘Aliens’ (or Xenomorphs) then take control of the ship so Ripley with her new superpowers must help the remaining survivors destroy the Aliens.

Sigourney Weaver is less than average as Ripley. She acts really weird this time as she likes to think of herself as the Alien Queen’s mother. It’s silly but hilarious when she says ‘I’m the monster’s mother’. The most annoying character is Call (Winona Ryder “Beetlejuice”). The Aliens look really good in this movie and a massive improvement over the rubbish one in “Alien 3” but I still prefer the more organic look in the first two as opposed to the computer effects look in this one. The rest of the characters are a bit weak and many of them are only there to die.

“Alien: Resurrection” is just stupid. It has so many flaws because of it being stupid but then again that is its best quality as well. Although bits of it are funny I wish they’d tried to ignore “Alien 3” (pretend it took place in another dimension) and instead take the story as if Ripley got to Earth and she’s been there for a while now as she looks way too old in this one considering after every movie she’s in cryo-sleep or dead. Unless you are absolutely desperate to see a film that shreds any remaining dignity from the once great “Alien” franchise by being a silly gore fest then I think you’ll find “Alien: Resurrection” is probably the movie for you.